The Queen Bee — Barbara Hazard

TUG OF LOVE

At first lovely young Miss Meryl Lancaster couldn't believe her suspicions. Surely she was imagining that Lady Gloriana Willoughby would want to sabotage Meryl's upcoming marriage to her son, the wildly handsome, utterly adoring Edward Willoughby, Viscount Trumbell.

After all, why would Edward's widowed mother care if she lost her son to another woman. Not only was she blessed by wealth and title, she was also still a dazzling beauty, the toast of aristocratic society and the center of a swarm of noble suitors drawn to her like bees to honey.

It was only slowly that Meryl learned the truth about this ruthlessly ravishing woman--to find there was no time to lose if Meryl were to keep her love from being torn from her by a foe who knew every treacherous trick and held all the cards....